Countering the Counterculture : Rereading Postwar American Dissent from Jack Kerouac to Tomás Rivera.
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TextPublisher: Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, 2003Copyright date: ©2003Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (365 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780299192839
- American literature-20th century-History and criticism
- Beats (Persons)
- American literature-Mexican American authors-History and criticism
- Literature and society-United States-History-20th century
- Counterculture-United States-History-20th century
- Mexican Americans-Intellectual life
- Mexican Americans in literature
- Social problems in literature
- Libertarianism in literature
- Dissenters in literature
- 810.9/358
- PS228
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Dissent and the American Culture of Mobility -- Part 1. The Roots of Postwar Dissent and the Counterculture -- 1. "No Fear Like Invasion": Movement, Absorption, and Stasis Horror in the Beat Vision -- 2. "With Imperious Eye": Kerouac's Fellaheen Western -- 3. Civitas and Its Discontents: The Lone Hunter Pleads the Fourth -- Part 2. The Americano Narrative: Postwar Mexican American Dissent and Community -- 4. Historian with a Sour Stomach: Zeta's Americano Journey -- 5. Mapping el Movimiento: Somewhere between América and Aztlan -- 6. Arriving at el Pueblo Libre: The Insistence of Americanismo -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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